Archive for January, 2011

Museum of the Americas in Madrid

In a beautiful wooded area between the Parque del Oeste and the Ciudad Universitaria Complutense of Madrid, concretely at number six in the Avenida de los Reyes Catolicos, there is an imposing and spacious brick building in imitation of the Spanish colonial palaces and convents and organized as those around a cloister around a large [...]

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Korean Embroidery at the Costume Museum in Madrid

Viewing the beautiful dress with official logo journal of range, set in the fifteenth century, one is gripped by an invincible immediate attraction to the public sector, despite the increasingly alarming and interested disrepute it is subject of lately, and few things can be found most desirable in the world to become one of them. [...]

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Miroslaw Balka’s ‘Ctrl’ in Madrid

Miroslaw Balka was born in Warsaw and was one of the most important painters and sculptors from Poland. The artist, who had exhibitions in Japan, Holland, Belgium, Scotland, Ireland and practically every country in the world, this time comes to Spain in an installation named “Ctrl” to consist of two parts: one to be presented [...]

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Alexander the Great in Madrid

Before turning 30 and having conquered most of the western hemisphere Alexander the Great (356-323BC) decided to conquer India. Maybe it was the wish for a new challenge and military success that marked his fate, then in his time they already said he was son of the Gods, son of Zeus himself to be exact. [...]

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Walter Benjamin in Madrid

The Circulo de Bellas Artes of Madrid exhibits an intervention of contemporary work by German philosopher Walter Benjamin until February 6, 2011  Benjamin is one of the most lucid characters of the first half of the twentieth century. His thoughts as well as his texts and art criticism got a great interest from the 60′s [...]

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Underground surfaces by Victor López-Rúa, in Madrid

Víctor López-Rúa, who was born in La Coruña in 1971, studied in Spain and in Italy and became one of the most important current Spanish realist painters. Víctor López-Rúa is, since the beginning of this millennium, one of the young artists who managed to generate more interest in the environment of both Spanish and world [...]

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011